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most signs now point to a status quo election. democrats keep the white house and senate and republicans keep the house with relatively few losses. despite all the money and time spent in this campaign, it now looks likely to will end with the same political math that delivered gridlock through much of the last two years. that policy uncertainty may worry investors, but politicians seem to have learned to live with it. >> in an era of deeply polarized parties, mandates aren't as important. all that matters is winning. elections decide who wins and who loses and after that, it is up to the successful party to see if the ingredients exist for getting anything done. >> reporter: if this is a very close election, we may not know the final outcome for months, as republicans and democrats fight over senate races and perhaps even the white house. and that will make it harder to find any coherent message on policy from the most expensive election in history. darren gersh, "n.b.r.," washington. >> susie: relief is rolling in for victims of
most signs now point to a status quo election. democrats keep the white house and senate and republicans keep the house with relatively few losses. despite all the money and time spent in this campaign, it now looks likely to will end with the same political math that delivered gridlock through much of the last two years. that policy uncertainty may worry investors, but politicians seem to have learned to live with it. >> in an era of deeply polarized parties, mandates aren't as...
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election officials are estimating about 70%, not as high in the previous election. but lorimar, millions have already voted in early voting -- but remember, millions have already voted in early voting in this state. we did see joe biden breeze in to try to shore up the final push for votes. president obama has had a bit of a lead during the last few months and it has tightened in the last few months -- few weeks. unemployment is lower. there are fewer foreclosures. there is a sense of optimism here and that has helped president obama, but it is tight. statistically, is still within the margin of error. we could be in for a long night. >> i hope not. thanks very much. laura is in miami, florida. florida is again some of the center of the more controversial elements of this process. >> that is right. everyone remembers what happened here in 2000. an incident that declared an automatic recount, and eventually george bush was declared the winner by just 535 votes. one polling station called me this afternoon to say that due to the high turnout of the polling station he
election officials are estimating about 70%, not as high in the previous election. but lorimar, millions have already voted in early voting -- but remember, millions have already voted in early voting in this state. we did see joe biden breeze in to try to shore up the final push for votes. president obama has had a bit of a lead during the last few months and it has tightened in the last few months -- few weeks. unemployment is lower. there are fewer foreclosures. there is a sense of optimism...
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the elections are on us in november. so it's kind of frozen what's taking place in washington. >> reporter: trouble in europe will continue to weigh on the us economy for the second straight summer. on june 17th, greece will hold parliamentary elections, and you can bet that whatever the outcome, there will be fallout in global markets. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: speaking of greece, standard and poor's today said there's a one-in-three chance of greece leaving the euro-zone after those national elections later this month. but the ratings firm says a greek exit from the currency doesn't mean we'll see automatic credit downgrades for other euro-zone nations. meantime, billionaire investor george soros thinks said germany has three months to avert a breakup of the euro-zone. he thinks the region's crisis will peak this fall. he wants german leader angela merkel to push "extra-ordinary policy measures," to keep the euro-zone together. >> a lot of crosscurrents, we have two perspectives on the market for invest
the elections are on us in november. so it's kind of frozen what's taking place in washington. >> reporter: trouble in europe will continue to weigh on the us economy for the second straight summer. on june 17th, greece will hold parliamentary elections, and you can bet that whatever the outcome, there will be fallout in global markets. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: speaking of greece, standard and poor's today said there's a one-in-three chance of greece...
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and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do, to put the past four years behind us and start building a new future. >> and barack obama looking presidential yesterday in a bomber jacket in air force one saying romney is not worth the risk. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you may not agree with every decision i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change, but you know what i believe. you know where i stand. you know i'm willing to make tough decisions even when they're not politically convenient. >> let's start by assessing these closing arguments. john, "you know me by know" can work both ways? >> it can work both ways but for this president that's not a bad closing argument. he also got a decent bit of economic news with the jobs report, came in about 46,000 over what the consensus forecast had been. and so he's casting this as we're slowly going in the right direction. we're on the right track. we've been through diffic
and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do, to put the past four years behind us and start building a new future. >> and barack obama looking presidential yesterday in a bomber jacket in air force one saying romney is not worth the risk. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you may not agree with every decision i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change, but you know what i...
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mcnearney survived his election. ricky gill, the hope of the party, the 25-year-old, fizzled out as well along with the soda tox. he didn't rise to the occasion. >> belva: we live in an exciting time. >> we do. >> belva: so everybody has enough work to go, understand what the voters are saying. >> embarrassment of riches in the state. >> belva: well, throughout my career, the most significant constant in my life has been the support and guidance of friend. for well over 40 years, brilliant author maya angelou has always found time to be supportive. so, true to form, when i asked her if i could come to her home in north carolina and interview her, the 84-year-old legend quickly agreed. i asked her to speak to all of us about friendship and how it shapes who we are and what we become. >> it really is, probably one of the real reasons why the stars are in the -- and the blood runs orderly in our veins. >> belva: her life has been populated with friends. and there have been many famous ones, from civil rights activist ma
mcnearney survived his election. ricky gill, the hope of the party, the 25-year-old, fizzled out as well along with the soda tox. he didn't rise to the occasion. >> belva: we live in an exciting time. >> we do. >> belva: so everybody has enough work to go, understand what the voters are saying. >> embarrassment of riches in the state. >> belva: well, throughout my career, the most significant constant in my life has been the support and guidance of friend. for well...
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it's hard to see how they're going to be able to win a national election or even a lot of statewide elections going forward without finding a way to make a convincing argument to attract latinos and women and people under 30 and so on and so forth. >> how do you see the tea party faring in the future and this idea that you make a pledge not to raise taxes and it's for the rest of your life? what happens to those two key elements of what's happened in the election? >> there are some people who wonder if jim demint's resignation from the senate toward the end of this year sort of marks the start of the downward spiral for the particular brand of conservatism that he and the tea partiers represented. he's sort of taking his ball and going home, although he hopes to keep influencing the debate from a think tank outside of the senate. and i think, you know, you're starting to see that while it's possible for candidates of that stripe to win house seats, you know, localized elections, it's going to get really, really hard for them to carry statewide elections. look at some of the senate races like
it's hard to see how they're going to be able to win a national election or even a lot of statewide elections going forward without finding a way to make a convincing argument to attract latinos and women and people under 30 and so on and so forth. >> how do you see the tea party faring in the future and this idea that you make a pledge not to raise taxes and it's for the rest of your life? what happens to those two key elements of what's happened in the election? >> there are some...
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because -- >> elections matter. the president will be in a position to drive this process forward. congress will get a message. there have been a lot of discussion about the fist clat clift. i have think the reality is congress has a challenge making hard decisons when there aren't consequences. >> the answer al to the question i ask you what i would most want to know when he considers the possibility he may very well be re-elected, what is it he feels he will be unrestrained to do? how does he think about this? i mean, how does he look at what will be the political realities? in terms of where i think i can take this country that i could not before? >> i think he's laid out a pretty clear vig and he will tomorrow night further. i think his ideas are clear, his beliefs are clear. >> are they big ideas? >> building an economy that will last, that will create manufacturing jobs for the future. technological base to be the world's leading, driving force to be competitive in fields we run the risk of falling behind in.
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the primaries may not be over but the general election has begun. we examine the battle lines tonight on "washington week." >> the republicans running congress right now have doubled down. and proposed a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> what exactly does president obama intend to do differently once he's no longer accountable to the voters? gwen: fighting words as the leading candidates for president visibly shift tactics. mitt romney is no longer running against republicans. >> mitt romney has already pivoted to the general election campaign. that whether rick santorum stays in or not is now basically irrelevant. gwen: and president obama, like all incumbents, is defending his own policies. >> under president obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. so why is big oil attacking him? because he's fighting to end their tax breaks. gwen: the economy, the voter, the supreme court, the candidates, all caught up in one big political stew. covering the week, jackie calmes of "the new y
the primaries may not be over but the general election has begun. we examine the battle lines tonight on "washington week." >> the republicans running congress right now have doubled down. and proposed a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> what exactly does president obama intend to do differently once he's no longer accountable to the voters? gwen: fighting words as the leading candidates for president visibly shift...
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the next shot comes in november, if mitt romney is elected. and the third shot is the math, because the math of obamacare over the long term does not work, because does it not address the fundamental problem driving healthcare costs, which people are not spending their own dollars on insurance, they're spending someone else's money. therefore, they do not pay close attention to how that money is being spent and too much is spent. >> let me put a dollar figure on that. the estimated 10-year gross cost of insurance coverage expansion under this is $1.5 trillion. $1.5 trillion. what are the american people going to say when they see that coming out of their pocket? >> i don't know what they're going to say. i don't know what the mechanism is that they're going to have to speak about it other than elections. but i want to mention another mandate, something called employer responsibility. and that means every company with 50 employees or more is going to have to buy a certain kind of insurance. that is going to be much more expensive than what they
the next shot comes in november, if mitt romney is elected. and the third shot is the math, because the math of obamacare over the long term does not work, because does it not address the fundamental problem driving healthcare costs, which people are not spending their own dollars on insurance, they're spending someone else's money. therefore, they do not pay close attention to how that money is being spent and too much is spent. >> let me put a dollar figure on that. the estimated...
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it could take weeks for county election workers to tally those votes. so, close races, it could be a long time before we know how they are settled. >> belva: i'm going to ask each of you about issues. odette, you are here because there are been polls for the first time that talk about issues that concern many minority groups. is there any common thread as to what these groups are interested i >> there is a common thread, belva, and this morning, what we released as the latest set of data from the field poll, not only does it look at the whole range of california voters, but also breaks out into specific ethnic grevoting groups. and, you know, this is a series of multilingual polls. six languages, includes white, nonhispanic, african-american, several asian groups, chinese, korean, vietnamese. and what the field poll was able to track from the gunning of the year through mid-september is what many have discussed, that during the last 22 years that california registration voter rolls, we know there's 18 million of them going to come out and vote there has
it could take weeks for county election workers to tally those votes. so, close races, it could be a long time before we know how they are settled. >> belva: i'm going to ask each of you about issues. odette, you are here because there are been polls for the first time that talk about issues that concern many minority groups. is there any common thread as to what these groups are interested i >> there is a common thread, belva, and this morning, what we released as the latest set of...
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it's an election year. but very bluntly, this is the worst day of mitt romney's life, as the presumptive nominee of the republican party. being president means that you are a negative end when there is bad job numbers. but being president when you can tack an affirmative action that makes your opponent squirm, even though it is an action that is totally consistent with where you have been and a policy sense, in this for mitt romney is a character issue. because in 2008-2012, he ran to the hard right of john mccain, of rudy giuliani, of mike huckabee there 2008, and of newt gingrich and rick perry in 2012 on the immigration. he embraced the ards ards controversial arizona state law. he said he would veto the dream act. and they're looking at the fastest growing constituency in the country. and he really is scrambling now to get back watch. does mitt romney do? does he reject the president's action. does he promise to repeal it. does he promise to honor it. does he support legal challenges against it? he-- i
it's an election year. but very bluntly, this is the worst day of mitt romney's life, as the presumptive nominee of the republican party. being president means that you are a negative end when there is bad job numbers. but being president when you can tack an affirmative action that makes your opponent squirm, even though it is an action that is totally consistent with where you have been and a policy sense, in this for mitt romney is a character issue. because in 2008-2012, he ran to the hard...
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we are close to elections in your country. what is going to happen, and are you going to endorse anybody? >> first, we need to make sure that the elections take place, because that is the core. by having the election and having the president, you are practically speaking, taking away the and executive power, taken away the legal stuff from the military, and now by having a president, you take away the executive power from them, so we need to make sure it happens as soon as possible for the stability of the country and for the better of the army, because the army right now is in a very weak position, in fact, and we do not want to see our army dissolved, or we do not want to see our army having such issues, so as soon as the presidential elections take place, this is equivalent to february 11, as critical, no matter whom it is elected, democratic, and this is representative of most of the egyptians. and i think i will endorse someone. i do not want to discuss that at the moment, and i am not sure my endorsement will be good or
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ran for re-election in 2005 and won but because of the fraudulent election it was stolen from him. the thing i think to know about morsi is that he's really not the person who you would expect to hold this post. he's not someone who likes the limelight, who is good at public speaking, who is good at handling. he's not a political figure in that sense. he's not a politician. he's a political organizer. and a strategist within the brotherhood. he's not even the most influential individual in the brotherhood. he was the brotherhood's second or back-up choice, as they say jokingly in egypt he was the spare tire. because their first candidate was a deputy guide of the brotherhood was disqualified for technical reasons by the presidential election commission. >> brown: you're suggesting he comes in as the second or third choice and he comes up against a lot of power. >> absolutely. he does not have i think the leadership qualities that could allow him not only to challenge the supreme council of the armed forces but also those influential members in his movement. so the question is is, w
ran for re-election in 2005 and won but because of the fraudulent election it was stolen from him. the thing i think to know about morsi is that he's really not the person who you would expect to hold this post. he's not someone who likes the limelight, who is good at public speaking, who is good at handling. he's not a political figure in that sense. he's not a politician. he's a political organizer. and a strategist within the brotherhood. he's not even the most influential individual in the...
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we're going to have this close election. two coalitions that have very different views about what the government should do, what course we should take. does this election lead us to just in a continued situation where we're at logger heads in washington and things just can't get done? >> ifill: susan page, stu rothenberg, andy kohut, thank you all very much. we are already getting a taste of the legal issues, challenges and battles at polling places that could decide the election. geoffrey brown has that >> brown: a number of voter >> brown: a number of voter identification laws were litigated in recent months, and largely put off to be decided after this election. but that's hardly the end of it: the campaigns, as well as outside groups, will have thousands of lawyers at polling stations and campaign headquarters, ready to challenge any irregularities. here to walk us through all this are curt anderson, an "associated press" legal affairs writer based in miami, and michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justic
we're going to have this close election. two coalitions that have very different views about what the government should do, what course we should take. does this election lead us to just in a continued situation where we're at logger heads in washington and things just can't get done? >> ifill: susan page, stu rothenberg, andy kohut, thank you all very much. we are already getting a taste of the legal issues, challenges and battles at polling places that could decide the election....
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elections board hoped to allow online voting in the general election in 2010. a few weeks before election day, officials issued an open challenge to hackers to try and breach the security of their system. professor halderman and some of his grad students took the bait and got busy-- documenting their exploit in detail. he has not allowed this video to be broadcast until now. within 36 hours, they were in total control of the elections server. they changed votes to elect science fiction computers and robots, downloaded a file with all the real voter passwords and rigged it so whenever someone submitted a ballot, they heard the michigan fight song-- the victors after a 15 second delay. it's tantamount to spiking the football, isn't it? >> well, we wanted to strike a balance between subtlety and overtness here, but... >> reporter: subtle? >> it's what the 15-second delay is for. >> reporter: here's how they did it: before uploading a ballot for submission, they changed the name of the p.d.f. file to include a command the server recognized. after uploading the doct
elections board hoped to allow online voting in the general election in 2010. a few weeks before election day, officials issued an open challenge to hackers to try and breach the security of their system. professor halderman and some of his grad students took the bait and got busy-- documenting their exploit in detail. he has not allowed this video to be broadcast until now. within 36 hours, they were in total control of the elections server. they changed votes to elect science fiction...
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first election, which was copter braziel. ultimately -- which was controversy all, and ultimately contested. initially, he was third. in some of the regions that have had violence, there were some incidents, and did slow down some of our efforts on cholera. it is why we have helicopters to be able to continue the movement of supplies in the remote areas while some of the streets had road blocks and problems, to be able to move supplies and personnel. but it was the right thing for haiti to have that happen, and andorganization came mein look at the initial election, had some problems in that, and was ultimately able to influence what i think was the legitimate inclusion of president martelli. tavis: since you raised security, did you then or at any point in time, all the time the spend in haiti, a disproportionate amount of time spent there, have you or do you feel your own -- fear for your own personal security? >> not at all. it is extraordinarily simple when you consider the desperation that comes in any place in this kind
first election, which was copter braziel. ultimately -- which was controversy all, and ultimately contested. initially, he was third. in some of the regions that have had violence, there were some incidents, and did slow down some of our efforts on cholera. it is why we have helicopters to be able to continue the movement of supplies in the remote areas while some of the streets had road blocks and problems, to be able to move supplies and personnel. but it was the right thing for haiti to have...
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>> well, i am work on a piece for our election issue about that. i have a list of ten i am working on. >> rose: give me the top five for god's sake. >> i don' i don't want to do al. >> rose: give me three. >> i will give you three. that is easiest one that than one. we have an african-american and a mormon running, two groups historically, a lot of historic discrimination and almost no talk of that and i think that is fantastic for the country. obviously there is some sub text out there but that is a big surprise. two is, you have got huge amounts of money being spent but for the first time in my career, neither side is claiming well we have to win despite being badly out spent, they are basically just saying there is so much money on both sides it doesn't matter. historically both sides have argued we are being out spent, money is saying that in any serious way and sustained way that is a big surprisement. and i think the last thing is, that governor romney was able to take one, 90 minute period and change the race completely, you just never have
>> well, i am work on a piece for our election issue about that. i have a list of ten i am working on. >> rose: give me the top five for god's sake. >> i don' i don't want to do al. >> rose: give me three. >> i will give you three. that is easiest one that than one. we have an african-american and a mormon running, two groups historically, a lot of historic discrimination and almost no talk of that and i think that is fantastic for the country. obviously there is...
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and what was really remarkable is by time election day rolled around, the election had almost become a referendum on mitt romney. gwen: yeah, funny how they turned that around. after it was all over, a lot of the things we didn't believe during the campaign, the obama people said oh, we figured this out. we know who our voters are. we know where to spend the money. we thought they were boasting. and it turns out they were right. >> the one thing, really, i think defied everybody's expectations is what the obama campaign said they were going to do, was that they were going to turn out an electorate in 2012 that looked very much like the electorate in 2008, that they were going to get huge numbers of african americans and young people. that they were going to mobilize the hispanic vote. a lot of republicans couldn't believe these polling numbers. there were so much talk of skewed polls. after the election the romney campaign said they just couldn't believe that the obama operation was capable of doing this. >> karen, to what extent do we think that the electorate that they produced in
and what was really remarkable is by time election day rolled around, the election had almost become a referendum on mitt romney. gwen: yeah, funny how they turned that around. after it was all over, a lot of the things we didn't believe during the campaign, the obama people said oh, we figured this out. we know who our voters are. we know where to spend the money. we thought they were boasting. and it turns out they were right. >> the one thing, really, i think defied everybody's...
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i didn't get re-elected just to bask in re-election. i got elected to do work on behalf of american families. gwen: the president still has a line to walk. on the one hand, you hear mitt romney talking about gifts and you hear the president talking about i'm not basking in re-election. but one of them kind of is. >> i thought the president did walk a careful line in that news conference. he did just win an election. you didn't see him gloating. there was a bounce in his step. he did not do what george w. bush did after he won his re-election. i have political capital to spend, i'm going to spend it. it sounded a little boastful. bush tried to privatize social security. it was a giant wreck. it cast a pall over the second term. gwen: obama didn't say that, it was almost that i meant it, when you look at the priorities for his second term as he talked about. >> he is ambitious, he should be. we should perhaps stop using the word "mandates." it wasn't terribly long ago that ronald reagan won 49 states. that's a mandate. it's unthinkable th
i didn't get re-elected just to bask in re-election. i got elected to do work on behalf of american families. gwen: the president still has a line to walk. on the one hand, you hear mitt romney talking about gifts and you hear the president talking about i'm not basking in re-election. but one of them kind of is. >> i thought the president did walk a careful line in that news conference. he did just win an election. you didn't see him gloating. there was a bounce in his step. he did not...
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then somebody would run with special election. well in hawaii basically what he said was, i really want someone to fill my seat i hope that is congress warm colleen hanabusa who has not been there very long, very close, he felt that she would represent him with fer per. he said he respected requested. that what is interesting, governor abercrombie did not release that letter. senator's office released that. there's some political pressure going on and essentially as they're having this fiscal cliff negotiations. >> ifill: governor abercrombie is slam dunk that colleen who is on the dying man's lips practically gets this job or other people still trying to figure a way in? >> what's going to happen this week is the hawaii democratic state central committee will meet. and they're going to give, according to state law, the governor three names of people who he could appoint to the seat. as long as colleen makes that list and is looking very, very likely that she will, the governor will most likely appoint her. it would be very diffic
then somebody would run with special election. well in hawaii basically what he said was, i really want someone to fill my seat i hope that is congress warm colleen hanabusa who has not been there very long, very close, he felt that she would represent him with fer per. he said he respected requested. that what is interesting, governor abercrombie did not release that letter. senator's office released that. there's some political pressure going on and essentially as they're having this fiscal...
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in an election that is that tight and in an election where the president is probably. .. has a slightly better standing in the swing states, we could have the kind of split decision we had in 2000. where president obama wins the electoral college and mitt romney wins the popular vote. that is possible with the scenario we see now. >> woodruff: dan, the pew poll also shows that the voters who favor governor romney say they are more interested, more likely to definitely turn out to vote than are those who are favoring the president. >> yes, and that's a very indicator. and another factor in that, that same poll shows that republicans are more enthusiastic about voting for governor romney. but earlier in fall, a higher percentage of republicans said they were voting against president obama. today a higher percentage of republicans, a majority say they are voting for governor romney. there has has been a change in enthusiasm. judy, i think one question that every pollster and every analyst i've talked to recently is trying to figure out is what will the composition of this el
in an election that is that tight and in an election where the president is probably. .. has a slightly better standing in the swing states, we could have the kind of split decision we had in 2000. where president obama wins the electoral college and mitt romney wins the popular vote. that is possible with the scenario we see now. >> woodruff: dan, the pew poll also shows that the voters who favor governor romney say they are more interested, more likely to definitely turn out to vote...
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presidential election. for more than a year we've been watching the nominees campaign for the job and with just days to go it's time to consider what would actually happen if they got it. for president obama, well, his track record gives us a pretty good idea. but what about his challenger? >> on his long journey to the white house we've seen the evolution of mitt romney the candidate. >> and i fought against long odds in a deep blue state, but i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> with four days until an election, he has a real chance of winning, it's time to consider what mitt romney, the president, would do. >> washington is broken. i know what it takes to get this country back and we'll work with good democrats and good republicans to do that. [applause] america has always been basically a center right country. i don't think that's changed much, and i don't think you'll see mr. romney drag it radically to the right. that's not really him. >> we don't know who the real mitt romney is. who
presidential election. for more than a year we've been watching the nominees campaign for the job and with just days to go it's time to consider what would actually happen if they got it. for president obama, well, his track record gives us a pretty good idea. but what about his challenger? >> on his long journey to the white house we've seen the evolution of mitt romney the candidate. >> and i fought against long odds in a deep blue state, but i was a severely conservative...
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in those elections there were delegates out for the various parties, election airing it right in front of the polling stations. we didn't see it that much. there were peppered violations here and there. my own sense was in visiting, i visited about a half dozen polling centers today. the biggest irregular city that people didn't know the judges in charge of elections, how the actually administer it. so each election was administered a little differently in each of the six places i visited today. the other surprising thing that we saw is people just didn't know who to vote for. so many women i saw today they kept asking and looking around to the election workers saying "who do i vote for?" and were just almost overwhelmed by the prospect of having the choice. and so there was a lot of effort to make sure that election workers weren't in any way communicating with voters because that would have been a violation. remember, there were delegates from each of the campaigns at polling centers and all but one had people sitting there monitoring the process. so there seemed to be a vast improve
in those elections there were delegates out for the various parties, election airing it right in front of the polling stations. we didn't see it that much. there were peppered violations here and there. my own sense was in visiting, i visited about a half dozen polling centers today. the biggest irregular city that people didn't know the judges in charge of elections, how the actually administer it. so each election was administered a little differently in each of the six places i visited...
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displom you're not too anxious over these elections. are you going to be playing the market on monday looking for opportunities to buy? >> not a short-term thing for me. greece has defaulted five times, defaulted or restructured five times since 1826 before. so this is the sixth default, restructuring for greece. the previous ones weren't the end of the world. nor was the argentina default or the russian default more recently. >> tom: an air of pragmatism and optimism. you're looking to put money to work in the auto industry but not playing the equipment manufacturers but the equipment. magna international, m.j., the auto parts company has come off its high now trading in the 30s. what do you anticipate for m.g.a.? >> what i like about m.g.a. is it has a very diversified base and auto sales are recovering in the expuz held up better than expected in china and even in europe. >> tom: you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty in commodity, and gold especially. stock prices well off the highs in the 50s. are you looking for value here? cou
displom you're not too anxious over these elections. are you going to be playing the market on monday looking for opportunities to buy? >> not a short-term thing for me. greece has defaulted five times, defaulted or restructured five times since 1826 before. so this is the sixth default, restructuring for greece. the previous ones weren't the end of the world. nor was the argentina default or the russian default more recently. >> tom: an air of pragmatism and optimism. you're...
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he won the election of course. but this is a test of leadership, and the american public does not want to go over that cliff because, by the way, they want the tax cut for the middle class to remain in place. that's the ultimate cliff there and the bottom line is we don't want those to expire. gwen: as we approach it we begin to try to read the tea leaves. he brings the c.e.o.'s to the white house and they had the goldman sachsco guy saying i'm pretty optimistic we'll come up with a deal. and others think we'll good over the cliff. what do we read into that? >> there's a rule that denny has earth enunciated and people are outraged. it's a majority institution. the speaker is not going to put something on the floor that doesn't get a majority of the majority. if john byner puts something on the floor that raises taxes, they're going to explode. >> you could do it in two steps. you could do kick a very big can down the road. gwen: which is basically what the president is saying. >> the republicans don't want to do th
he won the election of course. but this is a test of leadership, and the american public does not want to go over that cliff because, by the way, they want the tax cut for the middle class to remain in place. that's the ultimate cliff there and the bottom line is we don't want those to expire. gwen: as we approach it we begin to try to read the tea leaves. he brings the c.e.o.'s to the white house and they had the goldman sachsco guy saying i'm pretty optimistic we'll come up with a deal. and...
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election related? >> so, stew, is what we saw today in the stock market, with the selloff, the reaction to status quo. >> no. i think that is an overstatement. i think it is more of a reaction to what happened in europe, where the e.u. central banker said that germany was not looking so hot. >> so instead of reacting to the election, it was europe in your analysis. let's talk about the economy here, though, with the fiscal clip. you heard john boehner willing to accept new revenue. heaharry reid in the senate, saying you can't push us around anymore. is this language that begins compromise. >> it will begin compromise, but it may be far more horrowing. it may be it takes place next year, rather than this year. the problem is john boehner himself has one more election. he wants to be re-elected as speaker of the house. that does not take place until january 3, 2013. if he cuts a deal with barack obama, he faces a serious revolt in his own caucus. >> tom: is your caution then don't expect a fiscal clip s
election related? >> so, stew, is what we saw today in the stock market, with the selloff, the reaction to status quo. >> no. i think that is an overstatement. i think it is more of a reaction to what happened in europe, where the e.u. central banker said that germany was not looking so hot. >> so instead of reacting to the election, it was europe in your analysis. let's talk about the economy here, though, with the fiscal clip. you heard john boehner willing to accept new...
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after election. they said, we need to do something to change the election rules to first -- forestall of these changes and shape an electorate that is whiter, older, wealthier and more conservative. that is what these laws do. whether it is cutting back on voter registration drives, cutting back on the early voting, requiring government- issued i.d., these are all things that uniquely impact younger voters, hispanic voters, african-americans, and elderly voters. and most of those populations tend to vote for democrats and for the democratic paraty and certainly for president obama. that is why these laws were passed after the 2010 election when republicans took control of state legislatures and were able to do something in response to the obama election of 2008. tavis: since you mentioned the present, the first debate between mr. obama and mr. romney is behind us. the president is on his own. just weeks ago at the democratic convention he had a nice assist from former president bill clinton. bill cli
after election. they said, we need to do something to change the election rules to first -- forestall of these changes and shape an electorate that is whiter, older, wealthier and more conservative. that is what these laws do. whether it is cutting back on voter registration drives, cutting back on the early voting, requiring government- issued i.d., these are all things that uniquely impact younger voters, hispanic voters, african-americans, and elderly voters. and most of those populations...
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they proved its strength by coming first in parliamentary elections last year. while the old regime as been overthrown, the brotherhood to a back seat to young secular activists. the stars included a band called, wrote keep. -- cairo key. ♪ they are not so dismayed. they insist no leader will ever be able to stop another free election. >> there will be another revolution, i guess. it is not far away. egypt changed forever. people woke up, that is dead. -- that is its. >> of voting continues on thursday, if no candidate gets about 50%, there will be a runoff next month. the future is not clear, but this election is real progress. >> these are scenes in egypt. i spoke to -- there are four different frontrunners in his presidential elections. does that mean there are four very different possible outcomes? >> a lot is at stake in these historic presidential elections. there is no automatic letter. no preconceived ideas for who would emerge. yes, you are right, it will be a very different egypt. there are islamists candidates, activist who want to defend the gains
they proved its strength by coming first in parliamentary elections last year. while the old regime as been overthrown, the brotherhood to a back seat to young secular activists. the stars included a band called, wrote keep. -- cairo key. ♪ they are not so dismayed. they insist no leader will ever be able to stop another free election. >> there will be another revolution, i guess. it is not far away. egypt changed forever. people woke up, that is dead. -- that is its. >> of voting...
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-- as enthused to care as much about this election? everything we have seen it suggest that republicans have more at stake and are more interested the democrats. there is a 10-point differential. >> member barack obama's in activation? remember -- barack obama's inauguration? whereas all that nbc has and gone? >> -- where has all that enthusiasm gone? >> to it the recession, or least the slow recovery. there is no doubt that republicans care about getting rid of barack obama that democrats do about keeping him. democrats, for reasons that escape me, have been passively optimistic. they just think he will get reelected. there are lots of reasons he won't. >> we will continue to see an ugly campaign ads. >> so many people just say, "i don't want to vote for anyone, because everybody is bad." >> there you go, everybody is bad. >> historical, and negative campaigns depress voter turnout. if you are trying to depress voter turnout rate convincing people that mitt romney ran in the pirate, and daddy were box ran -- bain capital like a pirate
-- as enthused to care as much about this election? everything we have seen it suggest that republicans have more at stake and are more interested the democrats. there is a 10-point differential. >> member barack obama's in activation? remember -- barack obama's inauguration? whereas all that nbc has and gone? >> -- where has all that enthusiasm gone? >> to it the recession, or least the slow recovery. there is no doubt that republicans care about getting rid of barack obama...
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was elected. i remember covering him and having him explain what his role was and was not during the war. >> i don't think bill clinton could have been elected in 1992, except that the cold war was ending. so it's safe to take a chance on an untested democrat who was very much of the vietnam generation. and i think it shaped his -- at least the first part of his presidency. you're talking, penguin, about growth of individuals in -- gwen, about growth of individuals in the presidency. bill clinton was not comfortable as a foreign poll sipt, as a commander in chief at the beginning of his term. by the end he relished the role and a lot of people think he was pretty good at it. that evolution was hard for him, because it required making really hard, in some cases, unpopular decisions. the most important one was sending troops to bosnia, even though the polls told him that that was a political loser. >> peter, george w. bush's presidency changed fundamentally after 9/11. all of a sudden iraq and afgha
was elected. i remember covering him and having him explain what his role was and was not during the war. >> i don't think bill clinton could have been elected in 1992, except that the cold war was ending. so it's safe to take a chance on an untested democrat who was very much of the vietnam generation. and i think it shaped his -- at least the first part of his presidency. you're talking, penguin, about growth of individuals in -- gwen, about growth of individuals in the presidency. bill...
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gwen: countdown to election day. and on the airwaves, the big debate looms, 40 days to go as the candidates drill down on the economy. >> you think if we spend another $5 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, all our problems are going to go away? >> his plan is the spluss, how did the first one go. how much of it did you get? it was cash for clunkers. did you get help from that? gwen: and duke it on foreign policy. >> i'm pretty certain there will be bumps in the road because in a lot of these places, the one organizing brell has been islam. >> he said the developments in the middle east are bumps in the road. [laughter] >> yeah, that was my reaction. bumps in the road? these are not bumps in the road. these are human lives. gwen: the candidates, the polls, the issues, the voters, we are in the heartland tonight. covering the week, charles babington of the associated press, nia-malika henderson of the "washington post." jim tankersley of "national journal" and jeff delaney of the "new york times." >> th
gwen: countdown to election day. and on the airwaves, the big debate looms, 40 days to go as the candidates drill down on the economy. >> you think if we spend another $5 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, all our problems are going to go away? >> his plan is the spluss, how did the first one go. how much of it did you get? it was cash for clunkers. did you get help from that? gwen: and duke it on foreign policy. >> i'm pretty certain there will be bumps in the...
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charlie, we're sitting here the day before the election, it's appearing the day of the election where we are debating whether to replace a black man whose middle name is hussein with a mormon. okay? where else do they do that? is this a great country or what? i think president obama whatever happens, he has been a great representative for the best of america around the world and our standing in the world has benefited from that. >> rose: david brooks? this question, unless you want to follow up on that. it is the capacity of leadership to be able to bring together these forces. is there -- what's necessary for president to be able to reach out and have the kind of leadership ability and the kind of argument to prevail in uniting divorce forces? tom brokaw spoke about public and private sectors. we've talked about internationally the need to do ngs in partnership with people around the world. we got such a complex world, no nation can do in the the same way it used to be when we had a bipolar world. >> i guess i'm struck by something i'm always struck by when i have lunch or breakfast
charlie, we're sitting here the day before the election, it's appearing the day of the election where we are debating whether to replace a black man whose middle name is hussein with a mormon. okay? where else do they do that? is this a great country or what? i think president obama whatever happens, he has been a great representative for the best of america around the world and our standing in the world has benefited from that. >> rose: david brooks? this question, unless you want to...
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they've been hammered in the election. because of the pursuit of the austerity packages faithfully as they could under a consensual prime minister, a man who came from neither party but who is a former central banker. on the other side you have the radical left which has quadrupleed its standing in the polls, stands to increase that percentage of the popular vote even further in a repeat election. they have a dream of uniting the left in an anti-bailout government which would try to denounce the bailout agreement altogether, annul the legislation that enshrines them in greek law. >> suarez: quickly, john, before we go. in the run-up to what is going to be the next election, are more greeks now willing to openly contemplate what had been unthinkable, a departure from the euro? >> no at least 75 or 80 percent of greeks according to all the polls had that have been taken in the last year are in favor of remaining within the euro zone. i think the scenario of going to the drak ma is one that terrifys greeks and the proof of th
they've been hammered in the election. because of the pursuit of the austerity packages faithfully as they could under a consensual prime minister, a man who came from neither party but who is a former central banker. on the other side you have the radical left which has quadrupleed its standing in the polls, stands to increase that percentage of the popular vote even further in a repeat election. they have a dream of uniting the left in an anti-bailout government which would try to denounce...
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the last three people we elected fit that bill. and that is, again, a big advantage for barack obama, that he can use the stage to remind people of. >> rose: we continue with governor martin o'malley of larnd, arising star in the democratic party. >> i hope that we make the case that america's best days are still in front of us. if we continue to make better choices, if we continue to make the investments our parents and grandparents made in our nation so that we can create jobs, and expand opportunity. and that's what i hope comes out of this convention. and then there's a lot of cynicism in the world. and there are a lot of our neighbors who are still hurting. and a lot of us have stopped believing that america's best days are in front of us. and i hope what we're able to do is underscore those areas where we actually are making progress creating jobs and getting our country out of this bad recession. >> rose: we conclude this evening with antonio villa rog osa, chairman of the democratic national convention and co-chair of presi
the last three people we elected fit that bill. and that is, again, a big advantage for barack obama, that he can use the stage to remind people of. >> rose: we continue with governor martin o'malley of larnd, arising star in the democratic party. >> i hope that we make the case that america's best days are still in front of us. if we continue to make better choices, if we continue to make the investments our parents and grandparents made in our nation so that we can create jobs,...
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so they could easily say that the election was fair or not fair. there's nobody to really question it. the losing candidates are trying to say that because there was a law passed before the election that said that nobody from the regime could run for office for ten years that shafiq could be disqualified. that law went went to the constitutional court. the court hasn't ruled on it. so they're arguing that if the law was legal and therefore shafiq can't be a presidential candidate. >> ifill: tomorrow we expect even more demonstrations in the square. >> i think so. i mean there's a real effort to kind of regalvanize the revolutionary spirit through tahrir square. the problem is it's one thing to march in the square but they still can't get around one message. you have all these factions within the sort of revolutionary groups fighting over what should be the message and who should be the leader. so i think the spirit is there in tahrir square but in terms of tangible solutions for those who want to see a real revolution here, i don't think it can hap
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and if you're willing to work as hard as you did in the last election in this election, then we will finish what we started and remind the world just why it is that america is the greatest nation on earth. gwen: the president seems to be very interested in reminding the world, a, that he is there, a, that he is the clear choice, and, b, that he's not all the things that these republicans are saying that he is. so back in the fray, right? >> yes. you could argue he's been in the fray for a long time. [laughter] you know, it's hard to figure out when he got out of the fray. but he enjoys it. he's been looking for an opponent, because for so long we want this to be a choice and not a referendum. also, the numbers are turning his way a little bit and he was able to do some nice contrasting when he spoke to the u.a.w., the autoworkers, about the bailout of detroit, while the republicans were there saying the bailout was so terrible and horrible. the president and the white house -- the president placed a lot of bets early on and those bets are paying off. the president was able to say to
and if you're willing to work as hard as you did in the last election in this election, then we will finish what we started and remind the world just why it is that america is the greatest nation on earth. gwen: the president seems to be very interested in reminding the world, a, that he is there, a, that he is the clear choice, and, b, that he's not all the things that these republicans are saying that he is. so back in the fray, right? >> yes. you could argue he's been in the fray for a...
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we had an election in last november. in california the voters picked a democrat to be a governor and to run the legislature but when they got to sacramento in january the first thing they had to do was reach agreement with the people the voters just rejected. california doesn't work because we boxed in the legislature with the super majority requirements and spending mandates and this inflexible initiative process on top of it. >> the super majority is important. the republicans get blamed a lot for blocking things that the majority of democrats want to get through, especially taxes. do the republicans deserve that blame? >> this is a perennial part of the political debate. if you remember in washington when the republicans controlled the senate and trent lott and his allies were angry because the senate was not confirming the president's judgments. they were talking about the blocking of the majority to enact its will. but what susan talked about represents a more important set of reforms. that is the redistricting refo
we had an election in last november. in california the voters picked a democrat to be a governor and to run the legislature but when they got to sacramento in january the first thing they had to do was reach agreement with the people the voters just rejected. california doesn't work because we boxed in the legislature with the super majority requirements and spending mandates and this inflexible initiative process on top of it. >> the super majority is important. the republicans get...
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the demographics of this country are changing and they change election by election. there will probably a larger share of this elect temperature nonwhite. >> charlie:then you can make the the argument president obama is appeal to go america has become where as governor romney is appeal to go where america was? can you make it that clear? >> well our friend is an expert on all this basically said the obama coalition is the rising america. those constituencies. >> charlie:each case of the american. >> it's latinos, younger voters. and he does particularly well or better than many democrats have done in the past with very well educated white voters. >> i agree with all of that. the one state where the white working class really matters happens to be ohio which happens to be arguably the most porn state in the country along with pennsylvania which obama has to hold. even though the trends are exactly as dan describes owe ohio matters. >> and in ohio there's very little ee last tit in that electorate in comparison to in '04 and '08. the elect temperatures tbreu because of
the demographics of this country are changing and they change election by election. there will probably a larger share of this elect temperature nonwhite. >> charlie:then you can make the the argument president obama is appeal to go america has become where as governor romney is appeal to go where america was? can you make it that clear? >> well our friend is an expert on all this basically said the obama coalition is the rising america. those constituencies. >> charlie:each...
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what of putin now that this election is behind him? does he rule with a lighter hand or crack down further? what's the early thinking there? >> warner: i'll tell you, jeff, that is the big unanswered question. for a figure who has been in public life as long as he has, he's really owe pack... opaque. he did send a message or at least the russian government did send a message. he did invite on the other hand all his rivals over to his residence today and talked about investigating these fraud allegations. but the real question is, does he liberalize politically or does he continue treating them with the disdain that he did when they first started demonstrating back in december when he compared the white ribbons they wear to condoms? certainly the comments he made last night didn't seem to give them any quarter. i was in a very interesting dinner last week with some very senior well connected observers and writers in moscow. it was fascinating what a split of opinion there was about putin. some people said he's really flexible and think
what of putin now that this election is behind him? does he rule with a lighter hand or crack down further? what's the early thinking there? >> warner: i'll tell you, jeff, that is the big unanswered question. for a figure who has been in public life as long as he has, he's really owe pack... opaque. he did send a message or at least the russian government did send a message. he did invite on the other hand all his rivals over to his residence today and talked about investigating these...
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who do i think can get elected and who do i really support? >> woodruff: plus, stuart rothenberg and susan page assess the state of play in the g.o.p. campaign as the candidates vow they are in the race for the long haul. >> ifill: as russian presidential elections approach, antigovernment protests grow. ray suarez talks with margaret warner, who's reporting from moscow. >> woodruff: and spencer michels reports on how music therapy can help the brain recover from disability or injury. >> music can make a positive impact on people suffering from early onset dimension, kids with aus tism, with veterans coming back and trying to learn to walk without a limb. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcast
who do i think can get elected and who do i really support? >> woodruff: plus, stuart rothenberg and susan page assess the state of play in the g.o.p. campaign as the candidates vow they are in the race for the long haul. >> ifill: as russian presidential elections approach, antigovernment protests grow. ray suarez talks with margaret warner, who's reporting from moscow. >> woodruff: and spencer michels reports on how music therapy can help the brain recover from disability or...
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>> eventually healthcare but tarp happened even before the election, got defeated in elections, tarp is the -- >> i think it is one of the great policy decisions, gutsy decisions but you do not hear this rarely, you hear it fair will i often because nobody bailed the dry-cleaners out, the woing people. >> rose: so not as power as you think -- >> no, no. it is. i have watched it now and the polling must be in those two states on this issue, there is no doubt it is helping him now but it did define his economic philosophy if you asked him what is his economic world view people would say spending and bailouts. >> rose: i mean the president tried to say that we are doing this to save jobs and to save an american own company and we will own a part of these companies and when they get on their feet they will pay us back. >> the president needed to tell a story. >> rose: he could explain this. >> there needed to be a story told throughout this entire recession and recovery that said where we have been and why we are doing it and where we are going. >> rose: it is not happening -- >> how man
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there is the elected president, morsi and on the eve of his election, just as they were about to start counting the votes the military issued a decree that deprived him of almost all of his power, and so the real power remains in the hands of the generals, and it appears that they are determined to continue to hold on to the essential state apparatus until a constitution is written, until they can lay the ground work for egypt's future. >> rose: and who will write the constitution? >> who will write the as soo constitution, that's a very good question, right now the islamist dominated parliament reached an agreement with a variety of other more secular forces to put together a panel of people who are hard at work writing the constitution. will they if tote finish? we don't know. the courts are considering a challenge to the structure of that body, the courts who remain the old courts appointed by president mubarek and hostile to the new islamist powers, so it is possible they will cast aside that panel and a new one will be picked by the military. so that remains to be seen. but, you k
there is the elected president, morsi and on the eve of his election, just as they were about to start counting the votes the military issued a decree that deprived him of almost all of his power, and so the real power remains in the hands of the generals, and it appears that they are determined to continue to hold on to the essential state apparatus until a constitution is written, until they can lay the ground work for egypt's future. >> rose: and who will write the constitution?...
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been elected how many times? >> ten. >> bergman: you're a politician. >> oh, don't call me a politician. >> in some places, there are few qualifications... >> bergman: there was a time when the coroner was blind. >> yes, sir, that's correct. >> ...and there is no national regulation. >> one pathologist had been arrested for drunk driving on his way to work. he was giving crazy answers about how he thought people died. >> tonight... >> bergman: the body was found over there? >> ...frontline correspondent investigation in america. >> you call a death an accident or miss a homicide altogether, a murderer goes free. lots of very bad things happen if death investigation is not carried out competently. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan.
been elected how many times? >> ten. >> bergman: you're a politician. >> oh, don't call me a politician. >> in some places, there are few qualifications... >> bergman: there was a time when the coroner was blind. >> yes, sir, that's correct. >> ...and there is no national regulation. >> one pathologist had been arrested for drunk driving on his way to work. he was giving crazy answers about how he thought people died. >> tonight... >>...
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bush was more or less around there when he got re-elected. so it is possible to win with a 49 plus job approval. >> woodruff: how do you see it? this is the week of the storm, the president was off the campaign trail. >> sure. two things. i think david's right about the job, the president's job approval number. in fact, rather than averaging polls i just went to look at the same poll, "the wall street journal" nbc poll asked the same question in 2004 just before the election. that they did in 2012. the incumbent president then, george w bush had a 49% kpaferable-- favorable job rating, 48% unfavourable. barack obama is 49 percent favorable, 48% unfavourable. >> woodruff: exactly the same. >> right direction for the country, 41% then, 41% now. and would you be pleased positive if the president were re-elected, 50% said yes then, 50% say yes now. so and george w. bush won with 50.7%. i think the biggest event quite beyond either party's control is obviously the tragic of sandy's storm, the death and devastation it left in its wake. but at a tim
bush was more or less around there when he got re-elected. so it is possible to win with a 49 plus job approval. >> woodruff: how do you see it? this is the week of the storm, the president was off the campaign trail. >> sure. two things. i think david's right about the job, the president's job approval number. in fact, rather than averaging polls i just went to look at the same poll, "the wall street journal" nbc poll asked the same question in 2004 just before the...